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Hotel Information...... 1 Transportation ...... 2 Directions from Local Airports to Hotel ...... 2 Directions from Hotel to Local Airports ...... 3 Subway and Taxi Information ...... 4 Restaurant Guide ...... 5 Classic Tourist Spots ...... 5 Fun and Trendy ...... 5 Expensive ...... 7 Moderately Priced ...... 8 American ...... 8 Chinese ...... 9 French ...... 10 Italian...... 10 Japanese...... 11 Korean ...... 11 Mexican/Spanish/Cuban ...... 12 Kosher ...... 12 Thai...... 12 Vegetarian...... 13 Steakhouses ...... 13 Activities ...... 15 Theater ...... 15 Museums ...... 15 Sightseeing ...... 18 Nightlife ...... 21 Upscale / Trendy Bars ...... 21 Casual Bars ...... 21 Irish Pubs ...... 21 Trendy Clubs / Dance ...... 22 Comedy Clubs ...... 22 Music ...... 23 Weekend Sporting Events ...... 23

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Hotel Information

Grand

109 East at

New York, New York, USA, 10017, Tel: +1 212 883 1234 , Fax: +1 646 213 6659 CHECK-IN: 4PM CHECK-OUT: 11AM

 Closest Subway: 4, 5, and 6 (Green Lines) at Grand Central Terminal and 42nd St » Access to SoHo, TriBeCa, the Empire State Building, the Upper East Side, 5th Avenue, Nolita, The (MoMA), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the East Village, Brooklyn, , Washington Square Park, Yankee Stadium,  7 (Purple Line) at Grand Central Terminal and 42nd St » Access to the Upper West Side, Chelsea, the High Line  Pier 11 / Wall St Ferries » Access to Governor's Island, Staten Island, Jersey City, Jersey Shore

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Directions from Local Airports to Hotel

JFK to Hotel LaGuardia to Hotel 1. Start out going southeast. 1. Start out going west on Terminal 2. Turn slight left to take the B toward Laguardia Rd. ramp toward Airport 2. Terminal B becomes Laguardia Exit/Other Terminals. Rd. 3. Merge onto JFK Expy N. 3. Take the ramp toward Airport 4. Merge onto I-678 N/Van Wyck Exit. Expy N toward Airport 4. Keep left at the fork in the ramp. Exit/Return To 5. Merge onto Grand Central Pkwy Terminals/Long Term W via the ramp on Parking/Rental Car Return. the left toward Triboro Br. 5. Merge onto I-495 W/Long 6. Take the Bklyn Qns Island Expy Expwy exit, EXIT 4, toward I- W via EXIT 12B toward 278 W/Staten Island. Midtown Tun. 7. Merge onto Brooklyn Queens 6. Keep left to take I-495 Expy. W toward Midtown 8. Take the I-495/LI Tun/ (Portions Expwy exit, EXIT35, toll). toward Midtown Tun/Eastern 7. Take the 37 St exit LI/Greenpoint Ave. toward Crosstown. 9. Merge onto I-495 8. Merge onto E 37th St. W via EXIT 35W on 9. Take the 1st right onto 3rd the left toward Midtown Ave. Tun/Manhattan (Portions toll). 10. Turn left onto E 42nd St. 10. Take the 37 St exit Grand Hyatt New York, 109 East toward Crosstown. 42nd Street, New York, NY, 109 11. Merge onto E 37th St. EAST 42ND STREET. 12. Take the 1st right onto 3rd Ave. 13. Turn left onto E 42nd St. Grand Hyatt New York, 109 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 109 EAST 42ND STREET.

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Directions from Hotel to Local Airports

Hotel to JFK Hotel to LaGuardia

1. Start out going southeast on E 1. Start out going southeast on E 42nd St toward Lexington Ave. 42nd St toward Lexington Ave. 2. Turn right onto 2nd Ave. 2. Turn right onto 2nd Ave. 3. Turn left onto E 36th St. 3. Turn left onto E 36th St. 4. Merge onto I-495 E via the 4. Merge onto I-495 E via the ramp ramp on the left (Portions on the left (Portions toll). toll). 5. Merge onto I-278 E/Brooklyn 5. Take the Grand Central Queens Expy via EXIT 17W- Pkwy/Gr Central Pkwy/I- E toward La Guardia 678/Van Wyck Airport/Bronx. Expwy exit, EXIT 22A-E. 6. Keep right to take Brooklyn 6. Keep right at the fork in the Queens ramp. Expy via EXIT 42 toward Grand 7. Merge onto Grand Central Central Pkwy E/La Guardia Pkwy E. Airport. 8. Merge onto I-678 S/Van Wyck 7. Merge onto Grand Central Pkwy Expy S E via the exit on via EXIT 13S toward Kennedy the left toward Terminals Airport. B/C/D. 9. Take the exit 8. Take EXIT 7 toward La Guardia toward Terminals/1/2/3. Airport/Terminals/B/C/D. 10. 9. John F. Kennedy International LaGuardia Airport (LGA), Laguardia Airport (JFK) Airport, Flushing, NY, LAGUARDIA AIRPORT.

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Subway, Taxi & Parking Information Closest Subway 4, 5, and 6 (Green Lines) at Grand Central Terminal and 42nd St » Access to SoHo, TriBeCa, the Empire State Building, the Upper East Side, 5th Avenue, Nolita, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the East Village, Brooklyn, Carnegie Hall, Washington Square Park, Yankee Stadium, Central Park 7 (Purple Line) at Grand Central Terminal and 42nd St » Access to the Upper West Side, Chelsea, the High Line Pier 11 / Wall St Ferries » Access to Governor's Island, Staten Island, Jersey City, Jersey Shore

Subway and Bus Information • Website: http://www.mta.info • Directions: http://tripplanner.mta.info/MyTrip/ui_web/customplanner/TripPlanner.aspx

Taxi Information for N.Y.C. • Website: http://www.nyc.gov.

Taxi Information for Queens • Arrow Transportation: (212) 431-1900 • Car Line Transportation: (718) 729-2222 • NYC Airports Limo: (718) 766-6666

Parking at the Hyatt: We offer valet parking onsite for $70 for up to six hours and $80 for overnight parking. Our hotel does not offer self-park options or in and out privileges.

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Restaurant Guide

New York has a rich heritage in culinary kids like that doesn't have a ride. And stupid cuisine. Listed below is a sampling of some drinks like apricot smushes, big burgers, and favorite restaurants chosen by the staff of the towering sundaes mean that they might even American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review shut up and eat. But 3 has one chilly bowl of and the St. John’s University School of Law magnificence that would render the place a Moot Court Honor Society. must-visit if it was served atop a Dumpster. Frozen Hot Chocolate -- please don't try to All restaurant reviews have been provided make sense of it, just sip it, slowly -- is what by New York Magazine, http://nymag.com Cristal might taste like if it came in a flavor called fudge brownie. It's like riding the

Cyclone and giving a hickey: You have to do it at least once in your life. Classic Tourist Spots

Joe’s Pizza

7 Carmine Street at Bleecker Street Katz’s Delicatessen 150 E. 14th St., nr. 205 E. Houston St Phone: (212) 366-1182; (212) 388-9474 Phone: (212) 254-2246 Website: http://www.joespizzanyc.com Website: www.katzdeli.com Review: The workaday Greenwich Village Review: The oldest delicatessen in New York shop is the consummate New York slice City (established 1888), Katz's is also the parlor first and foremost for its uncanny, only place in town that still carves all its unparalleled consistency. It’s a spot where pastrami and corned beef by hand—and it your slice is exactly as excellent as the last makes a huge difference. It doesn't hurt that time, and the time before that, every time. these products are the best available, as are That can be attributed, yes, to high turnover: the frankfurters, knockwurst, knishes and Slices fly off the counter, and new pizzas are other Jewish deli staples. The ritual of constantly being baked, guaranteeing interacting with the countermen is one of the freshness. This brings up another essential great New York experiences. One table in the fact: Joe’s is always busy, but it’s never a middle of the dining room bears an pain to get in and get out. The ideal slice joint inconspicuous paper sign taped to its surface: shouldn’t be a major commitment for locals, "You are sitting at the table where Harry met and the slice must be obtained without hassle. Sally." Which is why the legendary Di Fara, where you wait 45 minutes to an hour for a slice that Serendipity 3 could be fantastic but might be burnt, is 225 East 60th St. absent from this list. Phone: 212-838-3531 Website: www.serendipity.com Review: There aren't many places left that make you want to blow bubbles through an ice-cream-soda straw. Serendipity 3 is proof that life isn't always a cabaret -- sometimes it's a sweet-sixteen party. Half Provincetown antique-queen attic, half Mad Hatter tea party, it's one of the few 5 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide the last time you strolled the Boulevard St- Germain. Fun and Trendy

Dos Caminos Buvette 475 West at Houston Street 42 Grove Street 675 Hudson Street at 14th Street Phone: (212) 255-3590 373 South at 27th Street Website: www.ilovebuvette.com Phone: (212) 277-4300; (212) 699-2400; Review: Buvette is open 18 hours a day, and (212) 294-1000 people are lined up outside for most of them. Website: https://www.doscaminos.com That is because Jody Williams’s self-titled Review: These high-concept Mexican spots “gastrothèque” is not just ridiculously are the festive links in Stephen Hanson’s B.R. charming, but it also manages to hit the spot Guest chain. Stylized South-of-the- Border on any number of meal-period and appetite- food created by chef Ivy Stark and flavorful specific levels, from steam-scrambled eggs margaritas (sage and plum, anyone?) appeal for breakfast to a 1 a.m. croque monsieur. A both to after-work hordes and weekend tourist common denominator on the small-plate throngs. Though the dining rooms at the menu is richness, a quality that extends even massive midtown outlets and the relatively to the vegetables and salads. Much of what diminutive Soho location make token gestures you eat at Buvette is delicious things you put at Mexican themes – wooden crosses, carved on bread (anchovies and butter, a signature wall panels – sleek latticed walls and mood combo) and delicious things you dip bread lighting are more hotel lounge than hacienda. into (a crock of creamy mustard sauce in With big mortars of guacamole made fresh which assorted rabbit parts are submerged). tableside and those tasty cocktails (plus more With every detail just so — the illustrated than 100 tequilas), meals can be an almanac-style drinks book; the cocktail afterthought for some patrons. It follows suit glasses chilling on the marble bar; the bistro- that the most satisfying orders are hearty aproned, neck-tied servers who could appetizers like generously-stuffed plantain conduct a master class on the art empanadas. of sprezzatura — the place might feel art- directed, but the effect is transporting. Megu 355 West 16th Street Balthazar Phone: (212) 885-9400 80 Spring Street Website: www.meguworldwide.com Phone: (212) 965-1414 Review: Having spent three months prior to Website: www.balthazarny.com the restaurant's opening studying the Review: Schiller's may be Keith McNally's intricacies of each dish, Megu's servers are newest nightlife nexus, but Balthazar is his some of the most graciously knowledgeable masterpiece, an evocation of a Paris folks ever to guide you through a menu. So, brasserie that out glows anything within you don't have to work, as long as you're Brie-tossing distance of the Seine. Yet for all willing to relinquish control. Hard as that is, its visual impact and despite McNally's follow their lead and you'll soon discover the uncanny skill at creating a place that remains ornate menu descriptions aren't idle boasts. hot longer than most of its patrons' Megu offers so much distinctively relationships, Balthazar's tender braised magnificent food, often presented with such short ribs, shepherd's pie made with duck or staggering beauty, that, though your initial grilled dorade ringed by roasted eggplant disorientation never fully subsides, you wind and peppers is exactly the kind of brasserie up too exhilarated to care. fare you would like to remember having had 6 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide startlingly airy Italian cooking. Ever try goat- cheese tortelloni dusted in dried orange and Rosa Mexicano wild-fennel pollen? Or spicy lamb sausage 9 East 18th Street romanced by mint love letters and a paste of Phone: (212) 533-3350 sweet peas? Get ready. Ingredients you didn't Website: www.rosamexicano.com expect or have never heard of are about to Review (from Citysearch): The latest outpost become unforgettable. Hot-chili- flecked of New York's pioneering Mexican includes linguine and clams will make you lose your the requisite bright color scheme, festive vibe composure. and designer David Rockwell's distinctive water wall that continually draws oohs and ahs. Old fans will be happy to know that the Craft famous guacamole also comes prepared 43 E. 19th St tableside here, and entrees like tortilla pie Phone: (212) 780-0880 with chicken, cheese and poblano chile Website: www.craftrestaurant.com sauce; chile relleno stuffed with spinach; and Review: Tom Colicchio is a fanatic for the slow-roasted achiote marinated pork make integrity of fresh ingredients and simplicity in the translation from the midtown original. cooking, and this much-discussed, much- imitated restaurant is the extreme, almost Kanoyama priestly expression of his views. You may not nd th like the conceit of building your meal one 175 2 Avenue (11 Street) spare ingredient at a time (many food Phone: (212) 777-5266 aristocrats actively hate it), but there’s no Website: http://www.kanoyama.com denying the quality of Colicchio’s sweet day- Review: (from the Infatuation) Kanoyama is boat scallops or bluefoot mushrooms lovingly an East Village classic with very fresh fish, foraged in the piney forests of Oregon. Craft and it’s your best option for casual sushi in gets four stars for its huge influence on the the neighborhood. They serve a bunch of way restaurant meals are conceived, different combos for under $30, and in presented, and eaten in this new Greenmarket addition to whatever sushi you’re eating, you era, and also for Karen Demasco’s impeccable should be sure to get the tuna tartare and any desserts—toffee- steamed pudding bombed of the chef’s specials. Just be aware that this with fresh-made rum-raisin ice cream—which place gets extremely busy - either call ahead are the best in town. for a reservation or grab a seat at the bar.

Daniel Expensive 60 East 65th Street Phone: (212) 288-0033 Website: www.danielnyc.com Babbo Review: How sad that the word special has 110 Waverly Place been denatured to sound more specious than Phone: (212) 777-0303 praiseworthy. Because Daniel Boulud really is Website: www.babbonyc.com special. He's been blessed with the glorious Review: This Italian restaurant serves food gift of being able to mix familiar flavors into you'll never find in Little Italy. A staff as the most stunning of summations. He smart as you want your kids to be helps. So routinely triumphs in why- didn't-anyone-else- do two uncomplicated floors suffused in think-of-it feats such as the seasonal paupiette honeyed amber light, as easy to get comfy of sea bass in a crisp potato shell. in as a calf-skin slip-on. But what will stun, fool, bewitch, and ultimately obsess you is chef Mario Batali's staggeringly original yet Del Posto 7 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide 85 10th Avenue Greenmarket references to "vine-ripened Phone: (212) 497-8090 organic" tomatoes and bluefin tuna caught, Website: www.delposto.com in the proper Slow Food manner, on "hook Review: As dinner unfolds at Del Posto, the and line.” Nouveau delicacies like new addition to the Mario Batali– Bastianich- langoustines doused with curried ginger and family fine-dining empire, it's hard to know Kaffir lime coexist with elderly favorites whether you’ve entered restaurant nirvana or like sole meunière. The best entrées at the some strange, slightly comical pastiche of new Le Cirque tend to be the safe and stolid what an opulent five-star restaurant should ones as well, the dependable kind of big- be. The plush, darkly glowing room has ticket items favored by elderly plutocrats towering columns and tall curtained windows with settled tastes and fat pocketbooks. like those you'd find in the lobby of a grand Roosevelt-era New York hotel. The menu is stuffed with $60 dishes of lobster risotto for two, and old Batali favorites like bollito misto, a medley of rustic Italian offal products that are carved, with elaborate ceremony, tableside. With Mark Ladner (formerly of Lupa) in the kitchen, the cooking is generally superb.

Felidia 243 East 58th Street Phone: (212) 758-1479 Website: www.felidia-nyc.com Review: In between writing cookbooks and taping segments of Lidia's Italian Table for PBS, Lidia Bastianich, the matriarch of the clan responsible in part for Lupa, Esca, and Becco, oversees this elegant bastion of Italian cooking. But chef Fortunato Nicotra deserves credit for a new breath of energy at the range. Sauces are lighter, pastas still wonderful, and entrees get deftly tweaked. The wine list always impresses, and olive oil connoisseurs can spring for a $7 comparative tasting. Felidia's first-ever bar menu features a selection of paninis and complimentary sorbet. Available for lunch and pretheater dinner.

Le Cirque 151 East 58th Street Phone: (212) 644-0202 Website: www.lecirque.com Review: Conflicts between old and new are evident on the menu. It's been pared down from its previous baroque, Eurocentric form and is dotted now with chic 8 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide American snack-bar grub that good. Yes, the Nobu line at lunchtime is as bad as your local Duane Reade. But go late in the afternoon, when the 40 W OR 195 Broadway crowds have thinned, sit at one of the Phone: (212) 219-0500 regulation-green Parks Department tables, and Website: have one of everything on the menu—perfect, https://www.noburestaurants.com/downtow smallish L.A.-style burgers that have no equal n/home/ in New York; dressed to the nines Chicago- Review: The great fusion chef Nobu style dogs with authentic Day-Glo-green Matsuhisa has done enough innovating to relish; a purple cow made with Grape Crush span several culinary lifetimes, and, more from the bottle; and frozen custard that tastes than most things cooked up during the like a dream. You can even gulp beer or have nineties, his miso-marinated black cod, rock a good half- bottle of wine inside a shrimp with spicy mayonnaise, and tuna designated quaffing zone, no brown bag tartar with a bed of crushed avocado all have required. stood the test of time.

Virgil’s Real Barbecue Moderately Priced 152 W 44th St Phone: (212) 921-9494 AMERICAN Website: www.virgilsbbq.com Review: The burgundy hand towel you get instead of a linen napkin is the tipoff. Don't do Blue Smoke Virgil's with your pinkie up. This is bar- b-q— 116 E. 27th St food you're supposed to suck off your fingers Phone: (212) 447-7733 and dribble down your chin. But is it Website: www.bluesmoke.com authentic? Faced with a plate of Memphis Review: Forget what the 'cue quibblers say— pork ribs and red beans, this big guy from Blue Smoke is an ingenious Manhattan Tulsa looks up and says, "Who gives a crap? barbecue joint with a woody barroom full of It tastes fine to me!" That should be good red-vinyl booths, a sky lit dining room, and a enough for you. hot jazz club downstairs. True, some of the barbecue isn't there yet, but each visit shows improvement, as pit master Kenny Callaghan breaks in those Missouri-made smokers. Salt-and-pepper beef ribs are terrific; so are sides and desserts, and as far as pit-smoked foie gras and salmon goes, what's the problem? This ain't East Treestump, Texas, after all.

Shake Shack Madison Ave at 23rd St Phone: (212) 889-6600 Website: shakeshack.com Review: Everyone has a favorite Danny Meyer restaurant; ours is Shake Shack. A weekly visit could cause you to rethink the necessity of having to get out of town during the summer. The park is that lush, the all- 9 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide display here (charcuterie platter, foie gras CHINESE terrine, a fine hanger steak and frites), but mostly Roussel (who is also a partner in the venture) peppers his menu with rib-sticking Jing Fong Alsatian specialties such as a tarte flambé 20 Elizabeth St, 2nd Floor (slightly weathered and over crisped on the Phone: (212) 964-5256 night I tried it); crocks of potée Alsatian Website: www.jingfongny.com swirling with white beans, cabbage, and Review: You must ascend an extra-long nuggets of bacon; and big, heavy-artillery escalator to get to Jing Fong’s massive items like the famous Alsatian casserole called second-floor dining room where, in the baeckoffe. mornings, Jing Fong’s specialty, dim sum, is served from wheeled carts by waiters in Orsay spiffy yellow jackets. During weekends the 1057 Lexington Ave restaurant gets so busily chaotic that you Phone: (212) 517-6400 might have to chase down the steamed Website:www.orsayrestaurant.com Review: dumpling or egg roll of your choice. The remake of The Exorcist isn’t nearly as Peking Duck House chilling as what Jean de Noyer must have 236 East gone through ridding the demons from this Phone: (212) 759-8260 place. But from the ash of Mortimer’s musty Website: www.pekingduckhousenyc.com chicken hash, Orsay has risen, a brasserie Review: In the heart of Chinatown, you swirling with seductive arches and good expect uncompromised, robust flavors, and cheer, giving the Upper East Side the French Peking Duck House doesn't disappoint. tickle it sorely needs. Duck, naturally, is the signature dish here, and the big attraction drawing in mainly ITALIAN crowds of non-Chinese folks pleased not to be sitting under fluorescent lighting. The gorgeous, tawny brown Peking duck is a 44 SW Ristorante & Bar spectacle: Masterfully carved into thin 621 9th Avenue slivers of tender meat and crispy, maltose- Phone: (212) 315-4582 basted skin, it's fun to roll it up into the Website: 44southwest.com accompanying pancakes, along with Review (from Citysearch): Deep red walls scallions, cucumber strips, and hoisin sauce. and furnishings give this two-room restaurant The wide-ranging menu offers some a slightly formal air, while its corner location adventurous fare, like sea cucumber with and big windows allow for lots of light and a shrimp roe and Peking-style shark's fin, but view of the theater district bustle. The dining the crowds seem content with standards like rooms are populated by a middle-aged crowd sliced beef with broccoli. of playgoers and locals. The menu features pastas, pizzas, a grilled salmon filet, and chicken breasts served half a dozen ways. FRENCH

Café d’Alsace 1695 Second Ave Phone: (212) 722-5133 Website: www.cafedalsace.com Review: Several of the familiar staples of the French-American brasserie canon are on 10 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide creations are sophisticated grown-up sundaes, Carmine’s anchoring this fun neighborhood hangout firmly in four-star territory. 200 W. 44th St.

Phone: (212) 221-3800 Website: www.carminesnyc.com Trattoria Trecolori Review: Using the same formula that’s kept 254 W 47th St its Upper West Side sibling cooking on all Phone: (212) 997-4540 burners, it’s a roaring success, with a high- Website: www.trattoriatrecolori.com spirited old-time atmosphere, mammoth Review (from Citysearch): Popular Theater portions that demand to be shared, and District destination for homey Italian fare. uncomplicated Southern Italian cooking that delights the palate and fills the belly. Best, Carmine’s cooking is primal and adept. Uva Shrimp scampi is a veritable school of plump 1486 2nd Avenue crustaceans dusted with breadcrumbs and Phone: (212) 472-4552 broiled with scads of butter, garlic, and clam Website: www.uvanyc.com juice. Ravioli are formidable rectangular Review: Uva is a cozy little collaboration pasta pillows puffed up with creamy ricotta from the owners of neighboring Lusardi's, cheese and doused with ragù. This place Due, and Luke's. The wine list is reminds you that red sauce, garlic, and good international (give the earthy Lusardi times will never go out of style. Sangiovese a shot), but the menu is distinctly Italian and casually snacky. Chisolini are Emilian-style focaccia, stuffed with robiola John’s Pizzeria and black truffles or whipped tuna with 278 Bleecker St capers and chives. Cured meats and cheeses Phone: (212) 243-1680 come on cutting boards. Best of all, in a Website: www.johnsbrickovenpizza.com neighborhood that needs it, nothing is truly Review: What's better than sitting down with expensive. your friends for cheap red chianti, pizza, and salad? Spending less than $30, perhaps? The brick oven thin-crust pizza is legendary; the JAPANESE basic Margherita should be the standard on which all other pizzas are judged. Momofuku Ko Otto Enoteca Pizzeria 163 First Ave Phone: (212) 500-0831 One 5th Avenue Website: www.momofuku.com Phone: (212) 995-9559 Review: The reservation system is a little Website: www.ottopizzeria.com nutty, and the quiet, priestly vibe can be off- Review: Mario Batali's most casual Italian putting. But if you wish to taste the best in restaurant is part buzzing wine bar, part experimental down-home cooking, this is the glorified pizzeria, with an always appealing place to do it. selection of fresh salads and smartly seasoned vegetable antipasti that arrive in small ceramic bowls on a snappy tray. True, we pine for the fritti Molto yanked from the menu to make room for the pasta people clamored for, but the pizza is indeed delish—thin-crusted, creatively topped, and cooked, ever so controversially among the Pizza Police, on a griddle. The gelati 11 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide Sushi Yasuda meal. Most do: Seafood pancakes are crispy and laced with tender squid; gobdol bibimbap 204 E. 43rd Street (a hodgepodge of rice, beef, and vegetables in Phone: (212) 972-1001 a sizzling stone bowl) achieves a properly Website: www.sushiyasuda.com crunchy bottom. The disorientation that sets in Review: Between the rarified air of Masa after a few bottles of soju might even steer you and the party-never-stops scene at Sushi away from standard fare and toward a Samba is a whole world of sushi dens bubbling-hot stew of oxtails floating with servicing New Yorkers' raw-fish cravings. purplish chunks of blood. Embrace it—it’s The variety and freshness of its food, both fiery and fabulous. raw and cooked, puts Sushi Yasuda in the top ranks of these restaurants.

MEXICAN/SPANISH/CUBAN KOREAN Cuba Kang Suh 222 Thompson Street Phone: (212) 420-7878 1250 Broadway Website: www.cubanyc.com Phone: (212) 564-6845 Review: The suckling pig has a crackling crust Website: www.kangsuh32.com that drips with garlic-sauce marinade, and Review: In the city that never sleeps, yucca con mojo, boiled cassava in garlic sauce, Kangsuh, a Koreatown staple since 1983, is pungent enough to cut any date short. never closes. The bi-level restaurant is open Typical ropa vieja (skirt steak), empanadas, 24/7, including Christmas and New Year's, chorizo with plantain chips, and Cuban and is generally jammed with Korean and sandwiches take their place alongside less Japanese businessmen, as well as tourists. common dishes like potatoes filled with The first floor is dominated by a sushi bar, picadillo meat sauce, braised oxtail, and red offering the usual raw fish permutations. snapper with green plantain crust. Better to head upstairs, where traditional

Korean cuisine dominates. Sala One Nine 35 W. 19th Street Kun Jip Phone: (212) 229-2300 9 W. 32nd St Website: www.salaonenine.com Phone: (212) 216-9487 Review: (from Citysearch) The bright space Website: www.kunjip.net is lit by colorful jeweled chandeliers and Review: For every three massive, two-floor, features rustic arches above prints of fluorescent-lit eateries in Koreatown, there is Pamplona. The Valencian chef is inspired by one restaurant like this. Small and outfitted in the foods of all 17 Spanish regions. Choices wood from floors to tables, it teems with extend from paella and gambas al ajillo mostly twenty-somethings, either standing in (shrimp in garlic oil), to tortillas Espanola a long, amorphous line or crammed elbow-to- and corbero a la segoviana (roasted lamb). elbow at tables; the scene is as raucous as its The full menu is served at the granite bar, food is satisfying. The lively little dishes— where Spanish cherries and wines, such as cubes of tangy, spicy pickled turnip, for Oloroso and Rioja, are poured. instance, and strips of chewy, sweet-dried catfish—that appear when you sit down are an auspicious beginning and suggest that any of the stews, noodles, and casseroles listed on KOSHER the extensive menu will also make a fine 12 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide retro look and hopping downstairs tequila Ben's Kosher Delicatessen bar, Tico’s. 209 W 38th St Phone: (212) 398-2367 Spice Website: www.bensdeli.net 236 8th Avenue Review: This casual delicatessen—the Art Phone: (212) 620-4585 Deco-ish Manhattan offshoot of a Long Website: www.spicethainyc.com Island chain—brings a full roster of pastrami, Review: Another branch in a burgeoning Thai corned beef, sour pickles, potato latkes, and chainlet challenges the conventional wisdom other highlights of kosher cooking to the that the authenticity of an ethnic restaurant garment district. All baking is done on the can be measured by its grubbiness (the more premises, and for those who hanker for worn the Formica, the better the food). The something a little stronger than Dr. Brown's, deft kitchen here overcomes a strikingly mod there's a full bar. décor, a persistent electro soundtrack, and fancified presentations to turn out well- Prime Grill seasoned, extremely tasty versions of classics 60 East 49th Street like soft, wide rice noodles in an addictive Phone: (212) 692-9292 black-bean sauce; and a roster of fresh- Website: seafood specials. www.theprimegrill.primehospitalityny.com Review: Joey Allaham opened Prime Grill in VEGETARIAN 1999 with a lofty goal: a kosher steakhouse with the chops to compete with the best restaurants in town. This was no small order: Candle Café Kosher meat, due to its rigorous slaughter 1307 Third Ave and preparation processes, often risks being Phone: (212) 472-0970 less flavorful than its ritual-free Website: www.candlecafe.com counterparts. Despite these restrictions, Review: A vegan restaurant that doesn't feel Prime Grill churns out juicy, flavorful steaks like one, and the perfect place for a date. Try from its dry-aging room, including prime the tempeh lasagna, or the club sandwich with rib, chili-rubbed hanger, a 16-ounce "Ladies' grilled tofu, sprouts, and a very convincing Cut," and the house's own interpretation of a tempeh bacon. T-bone. There's also fish, veal, and duck entrées, and a full sushi menu. Vatan Indian Restaurant 409 Third Ave THAI Phone: (212) 689-5666 Website: www.vatanny.com Review: You leave your shoes at the door, Tijuana Picnic and pad to your cushioned booth to sit cross- 151 Essex Street legged. Then you forget about menus, because Phone: (212) 219-2000 you'll be presented with a thali – a prix fixe Website: http://www.tijuana-picnic.com tapas-like spread of small dishes. Even the Review (from Zagat Review): Modern surprises are delicious. Mexican fare gets an Asian spin at this “flavorful” Lower Eastsider via Acme alums, offering tapas, skewers and family- style plates alongside “inventive” cocktails; fans like its late-night hours, “cool”, vaguely 13 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide Zen Palate brandy-cream sauce, top-sprinkled with caviar and accompanied by a crisp triangle of 115 East 18th Street fried bread. Phone: (212) 387-8885 Review: Zen Palate is for when you’re feeling virtuous: The vegetarian fare is tasty Del Frisco’s Double Eagle and relentlessly healthy. There’s no bar— just tea, juices and soymilk for kicks. The Steak House scene tends to be young and student-heavy, 1221 Avenue of the Americas especially since the bounty here comes Phone: (212) 575-5129 cheap. Much of the menu has familiar Asian Review: Want to see what mahogany staples such as noodle soup, spring rolls and fashioned by testosterone looks like? This is steamed vegetables; some corners are without question the most urbanely elegant hardcore veggie, or just plain strange (moo- steakhouse you will ever see, its meat locker shu Mexican style?). Whether you go out on filled with terrific beef. Now if they can a limb or not, it’s a reliable bet for simply only figure out how to get their staff up to the prepared, tasty food. level of their surroundings and kitchen.

Peter Luger Steak House TEAKHOUSES S 178 Broadway (Brooklyn) Phone: (718) 387-7400 Bobby Van’s Steakhouse Website: www.peterluger.com 135 West (b/w 6th and 7th Aves) Review: The staff goes about its nonstop Phone: (212) 957-5050 business with cordial if mechanical efficiency, Review: Bobby Van's serves some of the serving onion-and-tomato salads, creamed city's best steaks and lobsters to a loyal, spinach, and pasty fried potatoes. So why is it local, and low-key clientele. While there are always more crowded than Toys 'R' Us on the several other Manhattan steakhouses in the weekend before Christmas? Because there are same quality range (not as good as Peter few gastronomic sensations that confirm the Luger, but better than most of the rest), few good life better than a hunk of a spectacular provide an overall experience as satisfying steak. And Peter Luger can broil and deliver as Van's, thanks to the combination of one magnificently aged and marbleized two- choice cuts of meat and attentive service. finger-thick porterhouse after another with the unfailing certainty of Dustin Hoffman adenoidally reciting baseball scores. So don't Delmonico’s even ask for a menu. Get big. Eat beef. 56 Beaver Street Phone: (212) 509-1144 Website: www.delmonicosny.com Review: Pompeian columns flank the entrance of this stately Wall Street steakhouse, open since 1837 (no typo!) on a shadowy, wind-blown corner. This historic meatery is the birthplace of the Delmonico’s steak, a juicy cut of rib eye that’s perfectly charred and bloody good, served topped with a single, golden onion ring that could double as an edible bangle. Lobster Newburg, also created here, blankets lumps of the succulent crustacean in an unctuous

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Wolfgang’s Steakhouse 4 Park Ave Phone: (212) 889-3369 Website: www.wolfgangssteakhouse.net Review: After four decades of faithful service to Peter Luger, its former headwaiter, Wolfgang Zwiener, has opened a restaurant of his own. The elegant room with its striking Guastavino-designed vault ceiling, a bigger menu with more seafood, and the credit-card policy (they take them) distinguish Wolfgang's from Peter Luger. The meat, though, is prime, dry-aged for about 28 days in a basement locker and cut into porterhouse steaks for two, three, or four, just the way they do it in Brooklyn.

STK 1114 Avenue of the Americas Phone: (646) 624-2455 Website: https://stksteakhouse.com Review (from TripAdvisor): STK Midtown artfully blends the modern steakhouse and a chic lounge for a vibe-driven dining experience unlike anywhere else. Don't expect to find antiques on the walls or a stuffy, old atmosphere. We want you to mingle and have fun. Say hello to your table neighbors. Dance to the DJ and then hydrate with a cocktail or two. At STK, you'll get more than a great culinary experience... You'll get the perfect night out. STK Midtown is located in , just steps from the bustling Theatre District. STK Midtown includes an outdoor patio and separate bar during summer months.

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Activities

Theater night when much of the Great White Way is “dark.” Additionally, some productions TKTS Booth - Theater perform one or more 7 PM evening Development Fund (TDF) performances to allow an earlier night out for – 47th St and Broadway family audiences and other early birds. Phone: (212) 912-9770 Website: www.tdf.org TodayTix Description: TKTS Discount Booths offer Website: https://www.todaytix.com/x/nyc tickets to Broadway and Off-Broadway Description (from the website): Get tickets musicals and plays at up to 50% off. With to the best shows at the best prices on dozens of productions on sale every day, Broadway and beyond. Whether you need there’s something for everyone! TDF last minute tickets or tickets up to months in operates two TKTS Discount Booths in New advance, amazing discount deals or premium York City: seats, Broadway tickets or a one-night-only 1. The Booth sells day-of- cultural experience, TodayTix is your one- performance tickets only. stop shop. Enter digital Lottery and Rush 2. The South Street Seaport Booth sells programs to get exclusively priced tickets. tickets to evening performances on Catch up on the latest theater news. Learn the day of the performance, and about Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters. matinee tickets the day before. Discover your next night out with TodayTix. TKTS accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover cards, as well as cash, and TKTS Gift Certificates. A small number Museums of Off-Broadway shows may require cash Listed below is a sampling of some great only. Both locations sell tickets at 20% to museums that cannot be missed. 50% off full-price (plus a $4.50 per ticket service charge, which helps support other All descriptions have been provided by New TDF services and programs). Availability York Magazine, http://nymag.com. and ticket inventory change throughout the day and at the discretion of individual productions. American Museum of Natural History Playbill.com Central Park West (at 79th Street) Phone: Website: www.playbill.com (212) 769-5100 Weekly schedule of current Broadway shows Website: www.amnh.org While most of Broadway runs on a Hours: Daily, 10am – 5:45pm Prices: traditional Tuesday through Sunday schedule Suggested donation $22, $17 students - with Sunday and Monday evenings off - a and seniors handful of productions diverge slightly and Description: Established in 1869, the American offer performances at nontraditional times. Museum of Natural History covers four blocks This affords potential theatergoers a number between West 77th and 81st Streets and—with of options should they wish to take in a its enormous galleries of dinosaurs, aquatic Broadway show on a life, fossils, and meteorites—is one of the 16 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide city's most appealing museums for children. square feet. Today, art comes alive in the There are usually two special exhibits on Museum’s galleries and through its view at any given time. Past shows have exhibitions and events, revealing both new ranged from detailed explorations of the ideas and unexpected connections across time genome to cultural overviews of Vietnam to and cultures. wildly popular displays of live frogs and butterflies. Leave some time to explore space. The MET Breuer The glassy Rose Center for Earth and Space, 945 Madison Ave hailed as an architectural masterpiece, adds Phone: (212) 535-7710 the equivalent of another museum. Website: www.metmuseum.org/visit/met- breuer Guggenheim Museum Hours: Tue - Thurs: 10am - 5:30pm; Fri, Sat: 1071 (at 89th Street) 10am - 9pm; Sun: 10am - 5:30pm; Closed Phone: (212) 423-3500 Mon Website: www.guggenheim.org Prices: $25 adults, $17 seniors, $12 Hours: Sun-Wed and Fri, 10am – 5:30pm; students; NY residents and NY, NJ, and CT Sat, 10am – 8pm students pay what they wish Prices: $25, $18 students and seniors Description: The Metropolitan Museum of Saturday’s from 5pm – 8pm, pay what you Art's modern and contemporary art program wish (suggested amount is $10) includes exhibitions, performances, artist Description: Since 1988, director Thomas commissions, residencies, and educational Krens has irritated and enlivened the art initiatives in the landmark building designed world with showy, populist exhibits from by Marcel Breuer [BROY-er] on Madison motorcycles to Mapplethorpe, and from Avenue and 75th Street. The Met Breuer video artists Bill Viola and Nam June Paik to provides additional space for the public to the interdisciplinary conceptualist Matthew explore the art of the 20th and 21st centuries Barney. But traditional modernists need not through the global breadth and historical reach avoid this dynamic, tilt-and-twist space— of The Met's unparalleled collection. there's still plenty of art by well- known types, like Klee, Brancusi, and Matisse, and round-ups of 20th century artists or the Museum of Modern Art Russian avant-garde. (MoMA) 11 West 53rd St (between 5th and 6th Avenues) Metropolitan Museum of Art Phone: (212) 708-9400 Website: www.moma.org (MET) Hours: 7 days a week, 10:30am – 5:30pm; 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street) Fri and first Thurs. of each month, open Phone: (212) 535-7710 until 9pm Website: www.metmuseum.org Prices: $25 adults, $18 seniors, $14 students; Hours: Sun-Thurs, 10am – 5:30pm; Fri -Sat: Free on Friday 5:30 – 9pm 10am – 9pm Description: In its early days, the museum's Prices: $25 adults, $17 seniors, $12 celebrated garden was a place of retreat--not students; NY residents and NY, NJ, and CT just from the hurly-burly of the city but from students pay what they wish the metaphysical racket within the museum. Description: The Met Fifth Avenue presents Now, in this new building, Taniguchi has over 5,000 years of art spanning all cultures imbued the entire museum with the spirit of and time periods. Since the Museum opened the garden, creating a light-filled temple. its doors to the public in its current location in Central Park in 1880, its footprint has expanded to cover more than two million Museum of the Moving Image 36-01 35th Avenue at 36th St, Astoria, 17 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide Queens Phone: (718) 777-6888 Website: www.movingimage.us Rubin Museum of Art Hours: Weds-Thurs, 10:30am – 5:00pm; Fri, 150 West 17th Street 10:30am – 8:00pm (free 4:00pm – 8:00pm); Phone: (212) 620-5000 Sat-Sun, 11:30am – 7:00pm Website: www.rubinmuseum.org Prices: $15 adults, $11 students and seniors; Hours: Mon and Thu, 11am – 5pm; Wed, Free on Friday 4pm – 8pm 11am – 9pm; Fri, 11am – 10pm; Sat-Sun, Description: Inhabiting a landmark building 11am – 6pm that once belonged to Astoria Studio Prices: Free every Friday 6pm – 10pm, (Paramount Pictures' bustling East Coast $19 adults, $14 students and seniors production center during the 1920s), the Description: The Rubin opened in October Museum of the Moving Image was 2004 and houses about 2000 works in 25,000 established to educate the public about the art square feet of exhibition space, with a central and science of film, television, and digital six-story spiral staircase. Though he admires images. Aside from the galleries, the scholarship, Donald Rubin does not want his museum's major draw is its film program, museum to become forbiddingly academic. presented in the Riklis Theater, where He emphasizes the living quality of Buddhist cineastes are treated to a wide spectrum of art, its ability, he says, to stimulate an works, from silent-era gems to international "emotional rush" in viewers. The floor-wide films rarely distributed in the U.S. exhibitions around the staircase are therefore organized by theme rather than by particular P.S.1 Contemporary Art time or place. Center 22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY Whitney Museum of American Phone: (718) 784-2084 Art Website: momaps1.org 99 Gansevoort St., New York, NY Hours: Thu-Mon, 12pm – 6pm (at 75th Street) Prices: $5, $2 students and seniors Phone: (212) 570-3600 Description: For those accustomed to the Website: www.whitney.org burnished surfaces of Manhattan's legendary Hours: Mon, 10:30 am – 6pm, Wed-Thu and fine art institutions, MoMA affiliate P.S. 1 is Sat-Sun, 10:30am – 6pm; Fri, 10:30 am – both a geographic and esthetic departure. 10pm Housed in a castle-like brick Renaissance Prices: $25 adultsl $18 students and seniors; Revival structure dating back to 1893, Long Friday 7pm – 9:30pm, pay what you wish Island City's showcase for edgy, Description: This Madison Avenue gem is contemporary work takes an aggressive undoubtedly the place to go to view truly curatorial approach in which placement is as eclectic contemporary art. The Whitney's crucial as the content itself. permanent collection now holds about 18,000

pieces, including works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Charles Sheeler and Jackson Pollock.

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Sightseeing

Whether you are a first time visitor to New York or a repeat visitor the sights listed below illuminate the tower for various are excellent places to visit. commemorations.

All descriptions have been provided by New Grand Central Terminal York Magazine, http://nymag.com 87 East 42nd Street Phone: (212) 340-3404 Website: www.grandcentralterminal.com Description: With its majestic vaulted Sky Central Park Ceiling depicting constellations, a series of 5th Ave to Central Park West, 59th-110th St Roman-inspired ramps designed to keep Phone: (212) 360-3456 pedestrians on the move from the street to their Website: www.centralparknyc.org trains, and 60-ft. arched windows that streamed Description: Stretching from Midtown to sunlight into a grand concourse that has become Harlem, Central Park's green hills, rocky an enduring symbol of perpetual motion, the bluffs, and dense woodlands annually host Beaux Arts terminal soon became the busiest countless free diversions, from concerts and train station in the nation. protests to tai chi and tennis. 58 miles of pedestrian pathways lead 25 million visitors around such cinematic scenes as the placid Ground Zero, World Trade reservoir, perpetually fringed with joggers; Memorial and Museum skaters speeding through cones or wheel- Website: www.911memorial.org dancing near the band shell; couples and Phone: (212) 312 - 8800 families paddling the lake by the Loeb Location: 200 Liberty Street boathouse; youngsters tossing Frisbees and Description: The National September 11 soaking up rays in Sheep Meadow; and Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and baseball fans shagging flies in two dozen ball honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the fields. terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., Empire State Building and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people 350 Fifth Avenue killed in the World Trade Center bombing in Phone: (212) 736-3100 February 1993. The Memorial’s twin reflecting Hours: Daily, 8am – 2am pools are each nearly an acre in size and feature Website: www.esbnyc.com the largest manmade waterfalls in the North Description: The 86th-story observation deck America. The pools sit within the footprints has long been a hit with flocks of tourists where the Twin Towers once stood. Architect willing to brave long lines for the spectacular Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter views. On a clear day visibility extends eighty Walker created the Memorial design selected miles, with sightlines running as far as from a global design competition that included Massachusetts. The glitz of New York nights more than 5,200 entries from 63 nations. The ups the glamour quotient for late shift visitors. names of every person who died in the 2001 and Colored lights, introduced in 1976, provide 1993 attacks are inscribed into bronze panels their own allure as they edging the Memorial pools, a powerful reminder of the 19 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide largest loss of life resulting from a foreign terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the attack on American soil and the greatest single Statue closed and underwent a massive loss of rescue personnel in American history. overhaul, reopening in early August 2004 with Admission is free to the 9/11 Memorial. a more secure and visitor-friendly version of However, visitor passes are required. The the familiar landmark. The vastly improved easiest and quickest way to make a reservation lighting makes it possible to see all the way up is online. Museum admission is $26 for adults, to the crown without huffing and puffing up the $20 for seniors, and $20 for college students. narrow flights of stairs. Liberty Island remains accessible from Battery Park in Manhattan and Liberty Park in New Jersey. While the ferry ticket still covers admission to the park and Rockefeller Plaza at 50th nearby Ellis Island, additional tickets are Street needed for the new observatory and promenade Phone: (212) 332-6868 tours. There's no ticket fee, but calling to Website: www.rockefellercenter.com reserve a spot is highly recommended as they Description: The 14 buildings that complete fill up rapidly. this sprawling landmark all share the same design vocabulary—limestone cladding, sparing Deco flourishes, and a liberal Times Square sprinkling of art works to relieve the Location: Broadway and 7th Avenue (at otherwise sober effect. Beyond its 42nd Street) architectural merits, the center is also a major Description: Over a century ago, Thomas transit center, a thriving public square, and Edison juiced what is now the oldest surviving one of midtown's most concentrated Broadway theater, the Lyceum; ever since, the shopping districts. Stores, mainly of the mall- Great White Way has been known both for its chain variety, can be found at street- level as playhouses (around 20 are landmarked) and as well on the concourse below. Other tenants the place where night becomes day. In the include the famed auction house Christie's, words of one of its many chroniclers, it has also the premiere concert venue Radio City Music been a "crossroads of class and race," a Hall, and the NBC studios for The Today microcosm that has been everything to Show, Saturday Night Live and Dateline. everyone, from the employees of top media, legal, advertising, and financial companies to Statue of Liberty the billions around the world who tune in once Battery Park and Liberty State Park (Ferry to a year to watch the ball drop from the former the Island) headquarters of . Phone: (212) 363-3200 Website: www.nps.gov/stli Top of the Rock Hours: Daily, 9am – 5pm (at 49th Street) Prices: $18.50, $14 seniors, $9 children Phone: (212) 698-2000 Description: Standing 305 feet from the Website: www.topoftherocknyc.com ground to the tip of her torch, Lady Liberty Hours: Daily, 8am – 12am has welcomed immigrants and visitors to Prices: $38, $36 seniors, $32 children New York for well over a century with the Description: To attain the spectacular panorama lofty words carved into the base: "Give me afforded by this 1933 landmark, visitors must your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses wind through a multimedia exhibit on the yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse mezzanine level then take a 50- of your teeming shore. Send these, the second shuttle elevator to the top while homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my watching a quick history projected onto the lamp beside the golden door!" Following the transport's glass ceiling. Discharged to the 67th 20 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide floor (which also doubles as a private event space), thrill-seekers then ascend to the 69th floor, which although outdoors, is surrounded by transparent glass safety panels to allow unobstructed views with protection against strong winds.

Wall Street, New York Stock Exchange 18 Broad St Phone: (212) 656-3000 Website: nyse.com Description: On what has come to be the most recognizable Wall Street exterior, six massive Corinthian columns (draped today by a giant American flag) are topped by a pedimental sculpture entitled Integrity Protecting the Works of Man. Inside, the cluttered stock floor sits beneath marbled walls and 95-foot windows, which splash the entire trading area with light.

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Nightlife

P.S. 450 Upscale / Trendy Bars

Cellar Bar @ the Bryant Park Hotel Public House 40 West 40th Street 140 East 41st Street

Please Don’t Tell The Press Lounge 113 St. Mark’s Place 653 11th Avenue

Manahatta The Copper Still 28 Liberty 151 Second Ave. (btw. 9th & 10th Sts.)

Casual Bars The Flying Cock 497 Third Ave. (btw. 33rd & 34th)

The Rum House 228 W Irish Pubs

B Bar (aka – Bowery Bar) 11th Street Bar 40 E. 4th Street 510 E. 11th St. (btw. Avenues A and B)

Blind Tiger Ale House P.J. Carney's 281 Bleecker St 906 7th Ave

Brother Jimmy’s Gabby O’Hara’s 1485 2nd Avenue 123 W 39th Street

The Ginger Man Jack Doyle’s th 11 E 36 Street 240 W 35th Street

310 Bowery Bar Desmond's 310 Bowery 433 Park Ave South (btw. 29th & 30th Sts.)

The Delancey Failte 168 Delancey St. (Clinton St.) 531 2nd Ave. (btw. 29th & 30th Sts.)

Hair of the Dog Flannery's 168 Orchard Street 14th St. & 7th Ave.

Down the Hatch Judge Roy Bean 179 W 4th Street, 7th Avenue 39 W. 56th St. (btw. 5th & 6th Aves.)

Joshua Tree 513 3rd Avenue

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The Landmark Tavern Marquee New York 626 11th Avenue 289 10th Avenue

Katy Gallagher's Inc. Comedy Clubs 1267 1st Ave. (at 68th St.) Comedy Cellar McSorley's Ale House 117 MacDougal Street 15 E. 7th St. (btw. 2nd & 3rd Sts.) Phone: (212) 254-3480 Website: www.comedycellar.com Muldoon's Irish Pub Hours: Sun-Thu, 8:30pm – 1:30am; Fri, 692 3rd Ave. (btw. 43rd & 44th Sts.) 7:30pm – 2am; Sat, 7pm – 2:30am

Murphy's Pub Caroline’s Comedy Club 977 2nd Ave. (btw. 51st & 52nd Sts.) 1626 Broadway Phone: (212) 757-4100 O’Brien’s th Website: www.carolines.com 134 W 46 Street Hours: Mon-Thu, 6pm – 11pm; Fri-Sat, 6pm – 2am; Sun, 6pm – 12am Mustang Harry's 352 7th Ave (at 28th St.) Dangerfield's Comedy Club 1118 1st Ave O'Neill's Phone: (212) 593-1650 729 3rd Ave. (btw. 45th & 46th St.) Website: www.dangerfields.com Show Times: Sun-Thu, 8:45pm; Fri, John Sullivan’s th 8:30pm, 10:30 pm; Sat, 8pm, 10:30pm, 210 W 35 Street 12:30am

Parnell's Restaurant Gotham Comedy Club 350 E. 53rd St. (at 1st Ave.) 208 W 23rd Street Phone: (212) 367-9000 Finnegan’s Wake st Website: https://gothamcomedyclub.com 1361 1 Avenue

Shades of Green 125 East 15th Street (btw. 3rd & Irving)

Trendy Clubs / Dance

Up & Down 244 W 14th Street

Lavo 39 E 58th Street (btw. Madison & Park)

No Fun 161 Ludlow Street 23 2020 Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition - NYC Area Guide

Music Weekend Sporting Events

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) St. John’s Red Storm v. Butler Bulldogs 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY When: February 28, 2020 @ 7 p.m. Phone: (718) 636-4100 Where: Carnesecca Arena @ St. John’s Website: www.bam.org Description: BAM’s seven-story Beaux- Arts building houses a cavernous, 2,109-seat theater, which has been the site of legendary performances from Enrico Caruso, Isadora Duncan, John Cage, Vanessa Redgrave, Mark Morris, and Bill T. Jones. The house’s 46-foot proscenium has accommodated elaborate sets, like Robert Rauschenberg’s fabric sculptures and Pina Bausch’s mountain of colorful Chinese flowers. The remainder of the building houses BAM’s multifaceted operations, including BAMCafé (a restaurant–music venue), BAM Rose Cinemas (a multiplex for both first run and art-house films), a Brownstone Books outpost, and a small, first-floor gallery.

Smalls Jazz Club 183 W. 10th St Phone: (646) 476-4346 Website: www.smallslive.com Hours: Daily, 7:30am – 4:00am Prices: $20 Description: This subterranean hot spot is the quintessential jazz dive—a tiny, dark dungeon of a room with walls of brick and cobblestone, a few dozen ragtag wooden chairs, and of course, formidable music makers who play round midnight.

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